Two Sunsets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIJ FJJF KLLK MCCM NOON PQQC RSSR JJJJ TUUT JJJJ VJJV RJJRIn the fair morning of his life | A |
When his pure heart lay in his breast | B |
Panting with all that wild unrest | B |
To plunge into the great world's strife | A |
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That fills young hearts with mad desire | C |
He saw a sunset Red and gold | D |
The burning billows surged and rolled | D |
And upward tossed their caps of fire | C |
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He looked And as he looked the sight | E |
Sent from his soul through breast and brain | F |
Such intense joy it hurt like pain | F |
His heart seemed bursting with delight | E |
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So near the Unknown seemed so close | G |
He might have grasped it with his hands | H |
He felt his inmost soul expand | I |
As sunlight will expand a rose | J |
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One day he heard a singing strain | F |
A human voice in bird like trills | J |
He paused and little rapture rills | J |
Went trickling downward through each vein | F |
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And in his heart the whole day long | K |
As in a temple veiled and dim | L |
He kept and bore about with him | L |
The beauty of that singer's song | K |
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And then But why relate what then | M |
His smouldering heart flamed into fire | C |
He had his one supreme desire | C |
And plunged into the world of men | M |
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For years queen Folly held her sway | N |
With pleasures of the grosser kind | O |
She fed his flesh and drugged his mind | O |
Till shamed he sated turned away | N |
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He sought his boyhood's home | P |
That hour Triumphant should have been in sooth | Q |
Since he went forth an unknown youth | Q |
And came back crowned with wealth and power | C |
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The clouds made day a gorgeous bed | R |
He saw the splendour of the sky | S |
With unmoved heart and stolid eye | S |
He only knew the West was red | R |
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Then suddenly a fresh young voice | J |
Rose bird like from some hidden place | J |
He did not even turn his face | J |
It struck him simply as a noise | J |
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He trod the old paths up and down | T |
Their rich hued leaves by Fall winds whirled | U |
How dull they were how dull the world | U |
Dull even in the pulsing town | T |
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O worst of punishments that brings | J |
A blunting of all finer sense | J |
A loss of feelings keen intense | J |
And dulls us to the higher things | J |
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O penalty most dire most sure | V |
Swift following after gross delights | J |
That we no more see beauteous sights | J |
Or hear as hear the good and pure | V |
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O shape more hideous and more dread | R |
Than Vengeance takes in creed taught minds | J |
This certain doom that blunts and blinds | J |
And strikes the holiest feelings dead | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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